Ike Barinholtz: Picking Up Where Mel Brooks Left Off

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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It’s taken just over a decade for Ike Barinholtz to fully make it in Hollywood, with starring roles in big films like ‘Blockers’ and high-profile streaming shows like ‘The Afterparty.’ Now, with ‘History of the World, Part II,’ he’s returning to his sketch comedy roots. In this episode, the Second City and ‘MADtv’ alum talks about how he ended up becoming one of the driving forces (along with Nick Kroll and Wanda Sykes) behind the continuation of his comedy hero Mel Brooks’ 1981 classic and how he thinks about what it means to be “offensive” in 2023. Barinholtz also shares stories about ‘MADtv’ going up against SNL in the early 2000s, convincing Mindy Kaling he was really Russian on ‘Eastbound and Down,’ his breakthrough movie performance in ‘Neighbors’ and a lot more.

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0:00.0	The first time I really remember taking notice of my guest on this week's show,
0:04.9	he was stealing every scene he could from Seth Rogan.
0:08.9	You were the only one of our friends that has a house and a kid.
0:11.3	Yeah.
0:11.7	It's like you're like 10 years older than everyone, you know?
0:15.5	You're divorced.
0:16.4	The point is, it's Jimmy Time.
0:19.5	You know what I mean?
0:20.2	And the girls, when you're dating,
0:21.6	yeah.
0:22.6	Holy shit, see, we missed out on the whole kind of sex tech bubble.
0:26.6	You know what I mean?
0:27.6	Now they got sex book and fuck friends,
0:31.6	and there's this thing called Grindr,
0:33.6	which is just, your phone beeps when there's someone horny near you. It's kind of amazing.
0:38.8	So mostly guys, but I'm going to find it girl pretty soon.
0:46.2	This is the last laugh.
0:48.8	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast,
0:51.0	and that was Ike Berenholz from his breakthrough movie performance in Neighbors.
0:56.5	In the nine years since that movie was released, Ike has become a dominant force in the comedy
1:01.9	world, from early roles in TV shows like Eastbound and Down, the Mindy Project, and then the
1:07.2	afterparty, to bigger and bigger film projects like sisters opposite Tina
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